Description:
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista (1526-1597) Pontificum Romanorum Effigies. Rome: Franc. Zanettum, 1580. First edition, octavo, two engraved title pages, twelve preliminary leaves, illustrated with 214 of 230 plates, lacking sixteen pages/plates),engraved colophon on verso of last leaf; bound in later half red morocco, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
a8, a4, A-E8, F4, (lacking 12 leaves, plates 39-50),G4-8, H-I8, K6 (lacking 2 leaves, plates 74 & 76),L-N8, O7 (lacking 1 leaf, plate 105),P-Z8, Aa8, Bb7 (lacking 1 leaf, plate 197),Cc-Ff8, Gg4.
Estimate $300-400
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